0.57.0

This release includes updates to a number of crates.

It includes major updates to the following:

• riddle 0.57.0
• windows 0.57.0
• windows-bindgen 0.57.0
• windows-core 0.57.0
• windows-implement 0.57.0
• windows-interface 0.57.0
• windows-metadata 0.57.0

It also includes minor updates to the following:

• windows-result 0.1.2
• windows-registry 0.1.2

This includes various improvements and fixes to code generation, compliance with new Rust warnings, COM authoring support helpers, and more.

This release also includes the first published version of the cppwinrt crate.

What's Changed

• Workflow improvements by @kennykerr in #2994
• Workflow improvements 2 by @kennykerr in #2998
• Workflow improvements 3 by @kennykerr in #3000
• Workflow improvements 4 by @kennykerr in #3001
• Add as_raw to windows-registry by @kennykerr in #3003
• Add Linux smoke test by @kennykerr in #3005
• Add non-windows support for PWSTR and PCWSTR by @tyilo in #3004
• Use generated E_POINTER constant in windows-core by @kennykerr in #3008
• Use prebuilt gnullvm target by @mati865 in #3007
• Eliminate default features for JSON samples by @kennykerr in #3012
• Add support for freeing handles automatically by @kennykerr in #3013
• Addressing feedback on handle ownership by @kennykerr in #3014
• Bump ejs from 3.1.9 to 3.1.10 in /web/features by @dependabot in #3017
• Reconfigure environment for GNU toolchain by @riverar in #3019
• Remove workaround for empty structs by @kennykerr in #3016
• Derive Copy, Clone, and Debug for handles by @kennykerr in #3015
• Fix for Clippy HSTRING interior mutability warnings in nightly by @riverar in #3021
• Handle new unexpected_cfgs warnings by @kennykerr in #3022
• Update jsonschema requirement from 0.17 to 0.18 by @dependabot in #3023
• Add Ref and OutRef to enhance COM authoring support by @kennykerr in #3025
• Simplify derefencing Ref interface parameters by @kennykerr in #3027
• Add from_raw to windows-registry by @kennykerr in #3034
• Simplify windows-registry readme by @kennykerr in #3035
• Type name deferral in windows-metadata and windows-bindgen by @kennykerr in #3039
• Streamline TypeName to support pattern matching by @kennykerr in #3040
• Derive standard traits for structs by @kennykerr in #3041
• Add missing MSRV workflows for newer lib crates by @kennykerr in #3042
• Provide an explicit ComObject<T> type that represents a heap-allocated COM object by @sivadeilra in #3043
• bindgen/default: Improve formatting of the readme by @MarijnS95 in #3045
• Allow windows, windows_core (and several other crates) to be compiled and used in no_std environments. by @sivadeilra in #3047
• Add simple C++ test by @kennykerr in #3046
• Fix soundness hole in ComObject by @sivadeilra in #3051
• Re-enable unexpected_cfgs by @ChrisDenton in #3050
• Add no-default-features yml workflow by @kennykerr in #3053
• Fix alignment issue in windows-registry value iterator by @kennykerr in #3052
• Dynamic casting to COM implementation by @sivadeilra in #3055
• Switch to windows-2022 hosted runners by @kennykerr in #3056
• Add cppwinrt crate and sample by @kennykerr in #3054
• Fix handling of COM interfaces with same method name by @sivadeilra in #3059
• Fix bug in COM interface chain support by @sivadeilra in #3060
• Fix Debug impls for COM interfaces by @sivadeilra in #3066
• Use default rustfmt config for most crates by @sivadeilra in #3064
• Check for null pointers in core IInspectable implementation by @kennykerr in #3057
• Fix warnings from Rust 1.80.0 nightly by @sivadeilra in #3074
• Remove unused_qualifications entirely by @kennykerr in #3078
• Optimize IUnknown identity checks by @sivadeilra in #3073
• Add WinRT noexcept support by @kennykerr in #3070
• Release 0.57.0 by @kennykerr in #3081

New Contributors

• @tyilo made their first contribution in #3004
• @sivadeilra made their first contribution in #3043

Full Changelog: 0.56.0...0.57.0